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Siplus:
i was just testing around in the terminal to see if i could figure out how to use wine, but my first question: when i mount my windows drive, how would i access Program Files? b/c it has a space in it i guess. but when i found a game that i could find, (it just happened to be Redfaction...i know that wine probibly won't work w/ it, and winex currently doesn't support it), and typed wine rf.exe, X just froze... it gave an error like '"directX8 not found" click ok to close the program', but my mouse died and i could just hit enter, tab to it or anything, i was just stuck. i logged into root to see if i could figure out a way to kill wine or something, but i didn't see anything that would help me, and i dn't know many commands.

so, if this happens again, how can i stop wine or redfaction w/o logging out and back in when i'm in X?

voidmain:
Similar to the way you would have done it in "DOS" if you used the full name and not the 8.3 translations. You use either wild cards or put the directory in quotes:

$ cd /c/Prog*Files/Mic*Office

or

$ cd "/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office"

or

$ wine "/c/Program Files/Starcraft/StarCraft.exe"

or

$ wine "C:/Program Files/Starcraft/StarCraft.exe"

[ November 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Siplus:
cool, thanks void main

when i did this though, i couldn't get back to my X desktop, i could do anyting i wanted w/ the keyboard (except hit enter for the error message), but i still had to restart X. i [ctrl]+[alt][F1], logged into root, and ran top (the only thing i could think of the show current processes) to see if i saw "wine" or "redfaction" or "really stupid error that makes X lock up" (not really), but i didn't see anything. i just started typing kill X, kill wine, kill me...but nothing worked...

Calum:
re: wine, more recent versions of wine allow you to put the unix path to the windows executable instead if you prefer (which i would) eg:

wine /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Windows/write.exe

ah yes, one more thing, notice i escaped the space with a \ which you can put before any 'special character' on a unix command line, including a space.

not sure about the X problem though, X is largely a mystical black box to me i am afraid!

emh:

quote:Originally posted by Siplus:
cool, thanks void main

when i did this though, i couldn't get back to my X desktop, i could do anyting i wanted w/ the keyboard (except hit enter for the error message), but i still had to restart X. i [ctrl]+[alt][F1], logged into root, and ran top (the only thing i could think of the show current processes) to see if i saw "wine" or "redfaction" or "really stupid error that makes X lock up" (not really), but i didn't see anything. i just started typing kill X, kill wine, kill me...but nothing worked...
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You might try "killall" for the command instead of "kill".

As far as Wine locking up your desktop, I think that happens sometimes when your Wine is set up to open Windows programs as managed.  To keep X from locking up, you might try setting your Wine settings to "unmanaged" to see if that helps.  Otherwise, you can also try running the program in its own desktop.  Let me know if you need any help with setting it like this.

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